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What is the most useful/best quotation you've ever known?
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Avatar Image   Started by Dionysus Dionysus has 631 Grupie Points 6 months ago         Comments Add a comment

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"Those who would give up essential liberty ...

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... to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin http://en.wikipedia.org/w... [show more]

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I believe in Evidence.

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I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wil... [show more]

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When I Get A Little Money, I Buy Books.

If There Is Any Left, I Buy Food - Erasmus

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You knew I was a snake when you picked me up.

(Or its vice versa.) From the fable, The Old Lady and the Snake. (Not sure if that's its real name.)

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"Without music to decorate it, time is just...

"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. " — Fran... [show more]

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Its a military quote

Couldn't fit this on the answer line> My deepest fear is that I'll look back on my life and wonder what I did with it and who I... [show more]

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There is more importunity in praise than in criticism

You almost have to love Nietzsche's "maxims and Arrows" from beyond Goog & Evil"

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The Religion of one age is the

literary entertainment of the next

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"The disappointed man speaks. - I searched for great men

but all i found was the apes of their ideals. Nietzsche is "irresistibly quotable" (a quote from Simon Blackburn's "On Truth - ... [show more]

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This topic was started by Dionysus Dionysus has 631 Grupie Points on April 15th, 2008. 18 grupies have voted on one or more of the 17 answers.

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